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Harvard and the University of Michigan have formed two partnerships designed to encourage economic opportunity in Detroit and to fight the national scourge of opioid addiction.
Community Impact | AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | Serving Local Communities | Harvard University | University of MichiganResearchers from the University of California, Davis, are trying to figure out just what is in the ash and air when homes are incinerated.
Community Impact | University of California, Davis MSU has teamed with the City of Flint, Genesee County, Hurley Children’s Hospital, local health departments and a host of other organizations—governmental and non-governmental—to address both immediate and long-term needs of Flint residents.
Community Impact | Michigan State UniversityUSC engineers are working on artificial intelligence that can more accurately predict traffic patterns.
University Research | Community Impact | University of Southern CaliforniaFindings from a study conducted by researchers at the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work suggest that higher dementia prevalence among racial and ethnic minorities—particularly among Latinos—is connected to lower educational attainment.
University Research | Researching the Brain, Seeking Cures | Alzheimers | Community Impact | University of Southern CaliforniaTwo newly launched University of Oregon projects, funded by separate federal agencies, will help better understand the effects of rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns on both native plants and forage crops in prairies and pastures from California to Washington State.
Community Impact | University of OregonResearch by UO seismologist and earth sciences professor Douglas Toomey is shaping a new set of policy agendas designed to help Oregon prepare for a Cascadia earthquake and other natural disasters.
Community Impact | University of OregonEngineers at Iowa State University and the University of Florida are working on a new system of “bury-and-forget” soil sensors and remote, wireless, data-collection networks that could help reduce the fertilizer that leaves farm fields and feeds the harmful algae blooms both states are working to…
Community Impact | University of FloridaAfter ten years of studying the brains, researchers believe they have an explanation for why similar levels of head trauma in different people can cause some of them to suffer more drastic symptoms of CTE than others.
Researching the Brain, Seeking Cures | Brain Injury | Boston UniversityUB Heals, a nonprofit, student-run program is a street medicine outreach initiative whose mission is to increase access to health care among the homeless population of Buffalo, New York.
Community Impact | University at Buffalo - The State University of New York